Nanomedicine Art Gallery
Image 201Lung Nanorobots II

A single inhaled nanorobot reaches, deeply inspired into the lungs, enters an alveolar duct and attaches to the tissue surface. A pulmonary alveolar macrophage slowly crawls along the duct wall in the background. This image is taken from "Vital Space," an interactive movie exhibit unveiled in Summer 2002 at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, which takes its audience on a fantastic voyage through the body of a female astronaut ravaged by an alien virus. For more information about the Immersion Studios images, please contact Robert Ouellette, VP of Marketing for Research and Education.